<p><em>T<&sol;em><i style&equals;"background-color&colon; initial&semi;">he Inventory for Lost Things<&sol;i> is a lyrical meditation on memory&comma; grief&comma; exile&comma; and the ways we rebuild ourselves after loss&period; Through sixty poems that move between personal recollection and collective history&comma; the collection explores how language becomes both wound and wonder&comma; and how tenderness survives in the aftermath of ruin&period;<&sol;p><p>The poems traverse intimate and public landscapes&comma; from the quiet ache of familial absence and the ghost of a mother’s voice&comma; to the smouldering ruins of war-torn geographies like Gaza and Khartoum&comma; to the elegies of drowned men and vanished homelands&period; Each piece in the collection bears witness to displacement&comma; love&comma; and spiritual endurance&comma; drawing from faith&comma; and history to make meaning out of what remains&period;<&sol;p><p>The collection is structured as an emotional journey from mourning toward renewal&comma; it begins in silence and ends in light&comma; its final poems gesture toward healing&comma; forgiveness&comma; and the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;tenderness of language” as a form of survival&period; <em>The Inventory for Lost Things<&sol;em> invites readers to remember&comma; to grieve&comma; and to rediscover beauty in the broken places of the world&period;<&sol;p><p>Author&colon;&nbsp&semi;Abubakar Ibrahim<&sol;p><p>Publisher&colon; Masobe<&sol;p>